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Denise Holstein

1927–2024

Nationality
France
Occupation
writer

Denise Holstein (6 February 1927 – 16 November 2024) was a French Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945.

Incarceration history

  1. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  2. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  3. Zigeunerlager Auschwitz
    Dates unknown
  4. Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
    Dates unknown
  5. Drancy concentration camp
    Dates unknown

Biography

Denise Holstein (6 February 1927 – 16 November 2024) was a French Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945. As a Holocaust witness, Holstein tells her story in two books and in a documentary made by a student from the Lycée Corneille in Rouen. For almost fifty years, Holstein never spoke about her life before writing about it. As a Holocaust witness, Holstein visited school children, to describe and share her experiences.

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